An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

The third Note is this, It's a great aggravation of mens sin, not to be drawn by these Cords of men; for a man to stand ¹out against reason is a great aggravation: so men stand out against many ways of God, and yet their consciences fly in their faces and condemn them. Oh! thou art ⟨p. 53⟩a wretch, that though the Lord hath sought to draw thee with the Cords of a man, with Reason, and hath convinced thee, he hath gotten the cords into thy conscience, and God pulls, and thou pullest, and wilt not be drawn with those Cords, Oh! this is a wickedness for men to go on in ways that their own consciences do condemn them in▪ Some vain reasonings can draw men to sin as a Cart-rope, that's the meaning of that place, They draw iniquity as it were with a Cart rope; that is, their vain reasonings that they have for their sin twisted together make a strong Cart-rope to draw iniquity; Oh! shall not Gods Cords be as strong as the Devils Cords, or Mans Cords? Many there are, though God seems to draw them with these Cords of a man, yet their lusts are so strong like pampered horses in a Team, they will break the Cart-ropes, break all their harness to pieces; and so do many unruly Spirits even say like those in Psal. 2. Let us ²break his bonds, and cast away his Cords from us. Well, thou shalt one day be held by the Cords of thine own sin ³(as the Scripture speaks) and thy conscience shall lash thee with those Cords of Conviction that did not draw thee: Shall not the Cords of Conviction draw thee from thy sin? they shall serve to be as whips to lash thy soul even to all eternity; know that the Rules of Right-reason, and Scripture-reason shall stand when thou, and thousands of such wilful fools as thou art shall perish eternally. And these are the Notes for Gods dealing in a Rational way.

The third Note is this, It's a great aggravation of mens sin, not to be drawn by these Cords of men; for a man to stand ¹